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• Reference: 2023/4441
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

How much of the funding from the current Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 (AHP21-26) is being allocated towards the Mayor’s new Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP) and the goal of purchasing at least 10,000 extra council homes over the next ten years, as announced in his press release on 17 November 2023?

• Reference: 2023/4442
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

Could you provide an estimate of the number of additional council homes to be purchased in each year of the Mayor's new ten-year Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP), as announced in his press release on 17 November 2023?

• Reference: 2023/4443
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

What additional funding is the Mayor seeking from Government to support the new ten-year Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP), as announced in his press release on 17 November 2023? Please provide copies of any correspondence and supporting documents that you or the Mayor have exchanged with Government departments on this issue to date.

• Reference: 2023/4444
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

What analysis of the costs and wider benefits ratio will you or the Mayor be carrying out to assess his new Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP)?

• Reference: 2023/4445
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

When will the Mayor be publishing the update to the Affordable Housing and Viability London Plan guidance that covers giving key workers access to intermediate affordable housing, which he anticipated would be published for consultation in Spring 2023?

• Reference: 2023/4446
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

In the letter from Tajmina Jetha, Head of Programme Management, Housing and Land, to the Chair of the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee, dated 25 October 2023, it said: “A total of 1,105 completed homes were via Right to Buy Back projects, 108 completions in 2021-22 and 938 completed homes in 2022-23 and 59 in Q1 of 2023-24.” Were all these funded from the Affordable Homes Programme 2016-23 and, if so, what was the total funding from this programme? If not, how many were funded from the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 and what was the total funding from this...

• Reference: 2023/4447
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 07 December 2023

In the letter from Tajmina Jetha, Head of Programme Management, Housing and Land, to the Chair of the London Assembly Budget and Performance Committee, dated 25 October 2023, it said: “the GLA is estimating that £173.5m of the funding approved for projects in the Affordable Housing Programme 2021-26 will be applied to homes replacing obsolete units.” What percentage of the total funding in the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 is this £173.5 million?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 06 February 2015

Jenny Jones AM: On this substantive issue, I am very concerned that you are actually releasing too much industrial land because the vacancy rate on industrial land has actually halved in the past 15 years and is now lower than retail vacancies. I am concerned that you are talking about surplus land when, actually, it is not surplus because small businesses still need to be near centres of population and they still need to be near town centres. I just wonder how much research you have done on this.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Darren Johnson AM: I hear what you say about Wormwood Scrubs and the issue of permeability. I do not at all doubt the need to improve permeability. However, surely, this type of thing can be done through sensible negotiations between boroughs. You do not need to include it in the MDC to ensure pathways and gates to public open space, do you?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 December 2014

Jenny Jones AM: I have not been convinced by these arguments about keeping Wormwood Scrubs open space inside the MDC. The council that currently has it in their borough is against it. The Friends of the Open Space are against it. It looks like a mayoral land grab. It does not look like a coherent plan. Sir Edward Lister (Mayor's Chief of Staff): If I may, it is a coherent plan, but they do not agree with it. Jenny Jones AM: Do you not think you should be interested in localism: that decisions for local people for local land should...